Do you ever feel pain at the abdomen during jogging or intense exercise?
It may be the side stitches.
What are side stitches?
It is also known as exercise related transient abdominal pain (ETAP), an intense stabbing pain suffered by participants of sport and exercise, under the lower edge of the ribcage due to pulling of internal organs downward from the diaphragm.
Location?
Most of the time, side stitches occur on the right side of the body due to the liver, being on that side.
What causes the pain?
The pain is caused by a spasm of the diaphragm muscle while it moves up and down when you inhale and exhale quickly.
How does it causes the pain?
When you inhale, your lungs fill with air and force your diaphragm downward. Conversely, when you exhale your lungs contract and your diaphragm rises. This pattern of rising and falling occurs quite rapidly when you're running and as most side stitches occur on the right hand side, consider what happens to your diaphragm when your right foot strikes the ground.
As your right foot strikes the ground, gravity forces your internal organs downward. Some of these organs are attached to the diaphragm, which in turn pulls the diaphragm downward. Now if you're also exhaling at the same time as your right foot hits the ground, your diaphragm is being pulled upward as your lungs contract. This creates a stretching of the diaphragm muscle and the ligaments that are attached to your internal organs, which in turn causes the pain.
Treating it?
When a side stitch occurs it is important to stop the activity that brought the stitch on in the first place, and reduce the intensity of the activity.
Alter your breathing pattern can be helpful. Take a full, deep breathes and avoid shallow breathing.
Prevention before exercise.
Improve fitness, warming up, strengthen your core muscles, and avoid eating before exercise.
Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome. Freckle-like lips and all around the buccal mucosa.
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome is an autosomal dominant inherited disorder characterized by intestinal hamartomatous polyps in association with mucocutaneous melanocytic macules. Although the intestinal lesions are hamartomas, patients with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome have a 15-fold increased risk of developing intestinal cancer compared to that of the general population. Cancer location includes gastrointestinal and extraintestinal sites.
The gastrointestinal polyps found in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome are typical hamartomas. Their histology is characterized by extensive smooth muscle arborization throughout the polyp. This may give the lesion the appearance of pseudoinvasion, because some of the epithelial cells, usually from benign glands, are surrounded by the smooth muscle. The risks associated with this syndrome include a strong tendency of developing cancer in GIT and other areas include the pancreas, liver, lungs, breast, ovaries, and testicles.
The Criteria:
Family history of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
Repeated bouts of abdominal pain in patients younger than 25 years
Unexplained intestinal bleeding in a young patient
Prolapse of tissue from the rectum
Menstrual irregularities in females (due to hyperestrogenism from sex cord tumors with annular tubules)
Gynecomastia in males (possible due to the production of estrogens from Sertoli cell testicular tumors)
Precocious puberty
Gastrointestinal intussusception with bowel obstruction(prolapse of ileum to caecum)
Caffeine,My Morphine.
Daily Intake Increased.
This Post Is Inspired by Shyang & Shu Wei.
Mallory-Weiss syndrome is bleeding from an arterial blood vessel in the upper gastrointestinal tract, caused by a mucosal gastric tear at or near the point where the esophagus and stomach junction.
Mallory-Weiss syndrome causes about 5% of all upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The condition was originally diagnosed in alcoholics and is associated with heavy alcohol use, although it can also be found in patients who are not alcoholics. Earlier episodes of heavy hiccupping, vomiting, and retching are reported by about half the patients who are diagnosed with Mallory-Weiss syndrome. It is thought that the tear or laceration occurs when there is a sudden increase in intra-abdominal pressure. Patients with increased pressure in the vein leading into the liver (portal hypertension) are more likely to bleed heavily from an esophageal laceration than those whose blood pressure is normal.
In Mallory-Weiss syndrome, a tear occurs in the gastric mucosa, near where the esophagus and stomach join. About 10% of the tears are in the esophagus. Most are either right at the junction of the esophagus and stomach or in the stomach just slightly below the junction.
Bleeding from the tear causes a disruption in fluid and electrolyte balance of the body. The patient often produces vomit tinged with either fresh blood or older, blackish blood. Blood loss can be considerable.
The patient is resuscitated and stabilized with blood transfusions and intravenous fluids to restore the fluid and electrolyte balance. Most of the time, esophageal bleeding stops spontaneously. When bleeding does not stop, patients are treated with an injection of epinephrine (adrenaline) and/or the bleeding artery is cauterized with heat. If these treatments fail, surgery is performed to stop the bleeding.
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毛毛的。好想去捉它。
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